meaning of splat
1. splat 1. Name used in many places DEC, IBM, and others for the asterisk "*" character ASCII 0101010. This may derive from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers. 2. Name used by some MIT people for the "#" character ASCII 35. 3. Rochester Institute of Technology The feature key on a Mac same as alt. 4. An obsolete name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII circle-x character. This character is also called "blobby" and "frob", among other names; it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation for "tensor product". 5. An obsolete name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII circle-plus character. See also ASCII. [Jargon File]
2. a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
Related Words
splat | splatter | splatterdash | splattered | splattering |
